Writing with style: Grammar in context

This concise, supplemental text helps students understand the intricacies of grammar in order to improve their writing skills. A variety of well-known literary quotes and excerpts contextualize grammar principles and are accompanied by a range of simple to complex writing exercises. The author uses the method of first breaking down the quotation into its grammatical elements, and then rebuilding it to examine how the elements and devices create or enhance meaning, demonstrating how the featured writer has used a sophisticated knowledge of language to communicate effectively. Innovat

Table of Contents:
Part I: Quotations 1: Jane Austen -- Parts Of A Sentence: Subject/Predicate 2: Franz Kafka -- Parts Of Speech 3: Margaret Atwood -- Noun, Simple Sentence, Figures Of Speech 4: James Joyce -- Verb: Principle Parts, Tense 5: Dylan Thomas -- Verb-Finite/Verbals, Transitive/Intransitive 6: Pearl S. Buck -- Verb: Mood 7: French Feminists -- Parts of a Sentence: Subject/Object 8: Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Adjective, Adverb 9: Andre Gide -- Simple Sentence, Phrases 10: Heraclitus -- Compound Sentence, Independent Clause, Parallel Constructions 11: Oscar Wilde -- Compound Sentence, Parataxis, Conjunctions 12: Virginia Woolf -- Compound Sentence Freight Train, Triad 13: Graham Greene -- Complex Sentences/Dependent Clauses 14: Hannah Arendt -- Complex Sentence, Dependent Clauses, Subordinating Conjunctions 15: Martin Luther -- King Jr. Clauses 16: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Punctuating Clauses, Restrictive And Non Restrictive Clauses 17: David Suzuki -- Compound Complex Sentences, Analogy 18: Barbara Gowdy -- Fragment, Pronouns, Tone 19: Angela Carter -- Interruption, Allusion 20: A Cornucopia of Voices -- Figures Of Speech: Metaphor, Simile 21: A Plethora Of Voices -- Emphatic Device: Repetition 22: George Elliott Clarke -- Emphatic Device: Accumulation 23: Simone Weil -- Emphatic Device: Rhythm 24: The Oxford English Dictionary -- Diction Review Part II: Excerpts 25: Don McKay -- Clarity 26: Charles Dickens -- Emphatic Devices 27: Peter Sanger -- Diction 28: Harry Thurston -- Description 29: Dorothy Lessing -- Flow 30: Barak Obama -- Parallel Construction, Anaphora 31: Annie Dillard -- Poetic Devices Used in Good Prose 32: Phil Fontaine -- Eloquence, Tense 33: Thomas Carlyle -- Last Word Glossary List of Further Reading Index

About the Author :
Heather Pyrcz taught creative writing, composition, and introductory English part time at Acadia University for 15 years before leaving to write full time. She received a B.A. in arts and an M.Ed. in language from the University of Alberta, as well as an M.A. in English literature from Acadia University. Gaspereau Press has published three of her books of poetry, Town Limits, Nights on Prospect Street, and Viaticum. She recently completed A Digital History of Canadian Poetry for the League of Canadian Poets, and has worked on the Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing, second edition. Heather has published in anthologies and literary journals across the country. Her poems may be heard on CBC Radio and the National Gallery's autoguide. She has read widely in Canada including Whitehorse, Victoria, Harbourfront in Toronto, Saint John, Charlottetown, Halifax, St. John's, and on university campuses. Currently, she is completing a fiction trilogy and a new book of poems, collaborating with a west coast artist.

Review :
"Writing with Style is a carefully structured, clear, and accessible discussion of a number of important elements of English grammar. The illustrations from works of literature work very well as examples." --Dr. Craig Monk, Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Lethbridge "The text's interactivity (i.e. its emphasis on practical, written responses to the material it presents) forces both the instructor and the student to use the text actively rather than passively." --Professor James Parsons, Department of English, University of Ottawa